The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-05
FOR THE GOOD OF YOUNG MEN
Yesterdays Proceedings of the State
Convention of the Y. d. G. A.
Continuation of Rev. DR.. Brookes's Lecture on
'The Inspiration of the Bible"-Dscus-
sion Of Methods of Christian Work.

Nearly 200 delegates attended the session OF
the State convention of the Y. NJ. G. A. held at
the Tabernacle Church yesterday. The SEES
sions are all open to the public, and even the
routine work is interesting The session opened
with prayer for the presence of the Holy Spirit
A temporary organization was then made. with
DR.. j. X. Jamson, of Indianapolis, as chairman,
and F. Fl. Vernon, of Fort Wayne, as sec
rotary. G. ". Cobb. Indianapolis; N. ".
Hays, Fort Wayne, and W. B. Burris.
Danville were chosen a committee on per-
manent organization. Reports were received
from associations at Fort Wayne, Ccrwfordsville.
Evansville, Richmond, Brazil, Rising Sum-
Lafayette, Monticello, Hanover College, Elkhart,
DanvilIe, Indianapolis, South Bend, Earlham
College The reports were in nearly every
case encouraging, among the best being those
from the Fort Wayne R. R. Association, South
Bend and Danvlle.
The committee on permanent organization re-
ported the following officers. who were elected:
President-JQhn G. Blake Indianapolis.
First Vice PRESIDENT. w. Cromwell Fort Wayne.
Second Vice resident-W. 2. Burris. Danville.
Principal Secretary-J. E. Habbe. Evansville.
Rev. James H. Brookes, D. D., of st. Louis,
spoke on THE Inspiration of the Bible He
called the attention of his audience to the fact
that the evening before he spoke of the verbal
inspiration of the Bible. He said that had been
asserted by Paul in second Timothy, iii, It, II;
second Peter, 81 and that led to the fact of the
sanction of the Old Testament Scriptures by the
Lord Jesus Christ himself, the law of Moses. the
psalms and the prophets. The Old Testament
is mentioned over and over again in the new.
The Bible is uniformly true. There is no excep
tion to that remark. The Lord Jesus Christ
himself always quoted Old Tesla
ment Scripture with reverence for the
very word and very letter. When an
unwilling witness goes into court when his pref
udices are on one side of the case and yet re-
strained by conscience sense Of truth. his tes-
timony is regarded as the more important. I'm
der the head of unwilling witnesses, note Num-
bers xxi, 38: "And Balaam said unto Balak,
'Lo, am come unto thee. Have l now any
power at all to say anything? The word that
God putteth into my mouth. that shall speak.
See, also, Numbers XIII, II Must not take
heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in
my MOUTH" And in the sixteenth verse; 1.-THE
Lord met BALKAN and put word in his mouth" "
See, also, first Samuel x, 10 and first Samuel
x, Ii; first Kings xiii. 20. Illustrating this
point, he quoted several other texts, laying
mouth of him who uttered it, when its meaning
was strange and not understood even by linn
who uttered it, and more than that, he was
bound to utter it in spite of himself. DIR.
Brookes said he anxious to press it upon his
hearers that the Bible was not inspired like
Shakespeare is inspired, or Dickens is inspired
He did not allow any such infidelc assertion to
| GO unchallenged, and said it was a miserable
| SANDER on Gods word. Don't he exclaimed
| 'level the word of God to the mere plane
Of human genius; if you do you are
| gone, and might we'll be an infdel out and
| out" He said the very things that men pick
out as ridiculous in the Old Testament. are those
which Jesus Christ comes and puts the seal of
| his sanction upon-the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrah, see Luke xvii, 20; Lots wife. same
chapter Sd verse; Jonah and the fish, Matthew
| xii, 40, ''for as Jonas three days and three
nights in the whales belly. so shall the Son of
| Man be three days and three nights in the heart
| of the earth"
'Those who doubt these things" said DIR.
| fellows who got hold of plain old farmer and
began talking to him about those things IN
| Scripture. DO you believe about Jonah. Yes.
said the farmer 'And about those three young
| that And that story about Lots wife being
turned into pillar of saltg Yes We'll, at
| least you must say it was very strange thing
that ass should open his mouth and speak
like a man. No. said the old farmer. not near
as strange a thing as that a man should open
his mouth and speak like an ass"
| In the afternoon the convention was called to
| order at o'clock. After devotional exercises
several other associations presented reports.
| All of the reports were encouraging On mo-
ton, all pastors and members of other associa
tions were made CORES ponding members Of the
| convention.
The State committee. through its chairman
/ Dir J: y. Jamison; made its annual report. The
report shows that so far as the State work is
concerned, there has not been great success:
| as in past years. The resignation of DR.. L. w
| Munhall was quite a loss to the State work
Efforts will be made to put State secretary il
| the field for the coming year.
DR.. Brookes gave very able Bible-reading OF
the Office and W ork of the Holy Spirit. Among
the points made was that the Holy Spirit is
| divine person, ana the pronoun sit" should
| never be used in referring to Him. Jesus in re
| ferring to the Holy Spirit always used the per
sonal masculine pronoun He explained tina
| Rom. viii 16, is the only exception in the Kinl
| James version; but that this had been corrected
| in the revised version
DR.. Brookes's address was followed by con
| ference on railroad work, conducted by T. Z
| Esmond, of Elkhart assisted by r. M. Hays, o
| Fort Wayne; Secretary Hatch, of Kansas City
and George W. Cobb, of this city. The dele
gates gave some personal incidents which wer
very touching
The evening session began with song service
conducted by George T. Howser of Cincinnati
This was followed by Robert Weidensa of tn
international committee, New York. His topi
was, "Why do Associations Failq' The cause
of failure, he said, are a wrong beginning lacl
OF organization, want of responsibility on tn
part of directors, bad financial management
want of deiniteness and system, provision
iot Dipio Stuuy anu young mems meetings. TALL
ure to do personal work, and failure to &C
operate heartily in the State work
+. A. Hatch, State secretary Of Kansas dis
cussed the question, "Why do Associations Sue
ceed!' Among other reasons given was tina
those who have control of the work guar
against inbreaking we'll as outbreaking sins
that all are actively engaged in the work-hav
, the right men in the right place, saturated wit
) . ina Necessity % ne VIZ. - elsn ra9arda
fidelity to the word and quick response to til
promptings of the Hoiy Spirit as being anon
the most prominent causes of success in asst
citation work.
The event of the evening was the address c
DR.. j. II. Brookes, based on the second chapte
, of l Chronicles. His subject was "Ths Me
t Who Crowned King David He especial